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Volume 87, Number 16: April 20, 2009
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Table of Contents
- News of the Week
- Business
- Government & Policy
- Science & Technology
- Education
- Books
- ACS News
- Awards
- Editor's Page
- The Departments
Cover Story
Specialty Chemicals
The economic downturn is taking its toll across the industry, but companies are fighting to survive and emerge even stronger.
News of the Week
A Zippy Route To Nanoribbons
New methods peel open carbon nanotubes lengthwise to give strips of graphene.
Straight Route To Nanorings
Polymerizing a dendrimer yields elusive toroid.
Sequestering Cholera
Peptide mimic binds multisubunit toxin and could lead to new treatments.
Battery Plants Gain Ground
Lithium-ion battery makers move ahead with U.S. facilities.
New Asian Team
Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical and China's Sinopec will join forces in petrochemicals.
Casting Doubt On Old Rocks' Tales
Sediment's unusual sulfur signature may not have required oxygen-poor atmosphere.
Blood Falls Explained
Scientists reveal some chemical secrets behind a crimson-stained glacier in Antarctica.
Education
High Jinks Boost Chemical Learning
ACS Meeting News: Incorporating games and other playful activities in college chemistry classes raises passing rates.
Books
Championing Big Pharma's Science
Pfizer's former head of research hits back at critiques of R&D at major drug companies.
ACS News
ACS Comment
ACS member insurance: insurance for life
ACS Honors Its 50-Year Members
National Meeting Talks Online
Awards
Intel Announces Science Talent Search Winners
HHMI Backs Young Researchers
Inorganic Nanoscience Award To Charles Lieber
Accolades For ACS Journals
Svilen Bobev Receives ExxonMobil Fellowship
Esselen Award To Chad Mirkin
Call For Nominations For Nichols Medal
New Lectureship In Chemical Biology Available
Lori Koss Is Heller Award Winner
Call For Nominations For Buck-Whitney Award
Cecilia Clementi Wins Hackerman Award
Cooperative Research Awardees Announced
Eli Lilly Young Investigator Awardees Announced
Undergraduate Environmental Chemistry Awards
» Business
April 20, 2009
Paying Attention To Neglected Diseases
The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative is mobilizing public/private partnerships.
How MSF Advanced From The Field To The Research Lab
Breaking The Mold
Vanderbilt's program in drug discovery and others like it push the boundaries of traditional academic research.
Entrepreneurs In Academia
Chemistry professors start small businesses to catapult their research from lab to market.
Business Concentrates
- GSK And Pfizer To Form Company Focused On HIV
- Invista Pays Emissions Fine
- BASF Executives Take Over At Ciba
- Companies Advance LED Technology
- DuPont Asks Staff To Take Unpaid Leave
- Symyx Will Study Heat-Transfer Fluids
- Creditors Give Georgia Gulf A Break
- Borouge Moves Forward With Plant
- Pfizer Will Raise Presence In India
- iZumi Signs With Kyoto On Stem Cells
- Novartis Wins First U.S. Review Voucher
- Sanofi Will Buy Cancer Drug Firm
- J&J And Amgen Cut Staff In U.S.
- Business Roundup
» Government & Policy
April 20, 2009
Managing Chemicals Worldwide
United Nations work is a top issue at industry gathering on chemical regulation.
What Should The Public Know?
Bayer, chemical board dispute over community access to accident data may be harbinger of battles to come.
Insights: Changing Policy
Online social-networking sites have influence on the political process.
Government & Policy Concentrates
» more government & policy news...
» Science & Technology
April 20, 2009
Main-Group Research Springs Ahead
Chemists retool s- and p-block compounds in hopes of widening their use in reaction chemistry.
New Products
New and notable in the chemical industry.
Science & Technology Concentrates
- Insulin's Impact On Fat
- Antimicrobials From Silver And Egg Whites
- Shuttling Bicarbonate In And Out Of Cells
- Single-Molecule Fluorescence Events Seen In Real Time
- Improved Nanowire-Cell Connections
- Carbon Dioxide To Methanol Via Silanes
- Healthy Diets Now Include Lobster
- Liposomes Deliver Longer Lasting Local Anesthetics
